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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] N-kay:
Semi-broken connector

A relative needs a backup phone until the new one arrives, so I tried to revive my old GNex wich had lived in a drawer for a year or two.

Like many others, it wouldn't charge due to a bent connector, and after some fiddling, I managed to get it charging, but it's still wonky and I have to jiggle the cable into the port just right.

The main problem though is that no data is coming through. I've tried 2 cables that work with my Nexus 5, but neither the Galaxy Nexus nor my PC can detect each other.

Has anyone managed to fix this?

Buying replacement parts that are more expensive than the phone by now doesn't seem worth it, even more so because the GNex revival was only meant as short-term replacement.

Edit to clarify why it's important to get the usb connection working:

I accidentally wiped too much and am left with a phone that only has TWRP on it, and need usb to transfer a rom.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] sweetfreeze:
I am on the latest radio and firmware from the 3.15 RUU, and tried every 'stock' android ROM that I could find and none of them have working LTE. Am I doing something wrong, and if anyone has a stock android ROM with working LTE please let me know the name of it. :o
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Quetzalcoatl:
Do you live in an lte area?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] sweetfreeze:
Yes, I had pretty solid LTE here on all of the Sense ROMS
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] kaisies:
I get strong and steady lte signal on jellybam. I would flash 3.3 though until the mic issue gets solved.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] sweetfreeze:
Thanks, it is a really nice ROM too boot. And 4.1.0.0 fixed the mic issue I believe, I can make calls fine.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] SteelH:
Works fine on Tranquility. I use it every day.
[General Accessories] hanni7345:
so im having alot of troubles with controllers. i have a old madcatz and a wireless xbox controller

i dont want to root or anything but is there any way to remap the keys without rooting

becouse my madcatz controller is ****ed up when i i use vertical it moves on horizontal

and the xbox doesnt want look but it moves fine
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] 2momo123:
I recently had a Samsung phone of mine break, so I took it into the store, used my warranty, and they gave me a new one, and I gave them my broken one. I then began to wonder, what happens to my old phone's data? If my phone is fixed and sold (I don't know if they do that, but if they do) will its next owner be able to read my text messages, etc? Or are they wiped? If wiped, how do they make sure that the next owner doesn't have some way of recovering the previous user's data?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] byrdcfmma:
I believe they are fixed, a factory reset is done to erase all user data, then it is sold to insurance companies to be used as insurance replacements. I doubt they are too interested in your texts, but naked pics you left on there might show up on some adult websites, nothing to get too worried about...:D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] krusic22:
Ye that what i did but they didnt look if it has root. So they sold my broken phone (fixed) and the guy that buyed it knowed thats not right.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agent852:
They sell some to Asurion and keep some to use for Advanced Exchange replacements. In either instance, they replace the broken parts, flash a new ESN and then they do a clean ODIN flash (with Samsungs) which clears out any data anyways.

In my experience, Asurion refurbs are of lesser quality than Sprint refurbs.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] patrao_n:
I have gooten a refurb and used a recovery tool and found pics and videos on thr internal sd card. Its best to securely wipe the phone if possible.

sent from MY BAD A$$ ET4G
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agent852:
I guess if you're the kind of person who feels it is morally right to recover and look at someone else's data that you know you shouldn't look at, then more power to ya, buddy. Sure, they could have securely wiped their data, but seriously, how many people who own smartphones know how to do that? There's alot of people that don't even know how to do a hard reset on their own. Everyone should, but they don't.

I don't know if you're boasting or what, but whatever floats your boat.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
Any time I get a used device I recover and then securely wipe everything using DoD approved software. Don't want to get in trouble cuz the guy before me had kiddy pr0n or some sh*t on there and it didnt get wiped properly. And I've recovered some really messed up sh*t off of phones and laptops I buy used and clean up and flip.

I like to break stuff! :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bigj231:
I've never seen the need to do any more than 1 pass of 0's. Without actually pulling the platters out I've never seen any data other than 0's from raw data recovery. (i.e. dd) I've also never been able to recover anything that i'd overwritten on flash media either.

I guess if it makes you feel better, then by all means, write 27 passes of garbage.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] patrao_n:
I only used the program because I wiped the internal losing my pics. I had the phone for about a month and a half before I needed to. I deleted those pics and vids after I found them. It wasnt my intent to look for that. I did however get most of my pics back so ut was worth it.

And no I was not boasting or bragging. Just sharing info. Sorry if it came across that way.

sent from MY BAD A$$ ET4G
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] graydiggy:
I kind of see your point. But what is the point of doing a recovery? I fully understand doing a secure wipe to prevent trouble, but there is no need to recover anything off the device if you are getting it from another person and then flipping it after the wipe.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] garwynn:
He's basically saying while

you

(the end user) may not want to recovery things... there may be others who want to. A "7 wipe" of changing all bits to 0 7 times is the DoD official solution to ensure any data is wiped - prior to physical destruction. (If done right you will

never

see a disk drive for sale at DRMO. If you do someone screwed up royally.)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] graydiggy:
I know that. But I am asking why he recovers anything off of a phone if he intends to wipe and sell said device. Why bother with the recovery? Just wipe it and call it a day. I know the DoD standard for erasing information. Hell when I was in the Army we had a microwave specifically for CD's and DVD's then put them through a shredder.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
I recover the data and store it on a external drove for 90 days. I do it because I usually contact the original owner (if I can get ahold of them) and ask them of theyd like their photos and stuff back. The few times I've found really ****ed up stuff like kiddy pr0n amd **** I stored it until the police could come and collect the device and recovered data and yes I take losses on those devices because I buy them and then turn them into police. Usually I just get people's family photos and stuff back that they thought were lost forever. I usually wont go through the data in any detail except to see if its worth storing until I can contact the owner. Unless it's something of an illegal nature then I have to go thru it and make a report with the police. The only things I report tho are violent/sexual crimes, drug stuff I just laugh at hell I may need to call the original owner for a bag of trees when im dry lol

I like to break stuff! :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] graydiggy:
I wouldn't even go all that far. Trust me when I say that kiddy porn is bad and so are violent crimes and whatnot. But I personally wouldn't go through the trouble. I just wipe it a ton of times, throw random data on it then wipe it some more before I sell it. A friend of mine did the same as you and found what seemed to be kiddie pron. He reported it and they came and took his computers and all of his electronics that could store any kind of data. He wasn't charged with anything but since he was in possession of it even though he reported it, they took all his sh1t and only gave him back his 3 computers. He took a huge loss costing him about 3k. So i dont even bother trying to find it. What can be done and I have done it before is leave an anonymous tip with the police. If they get reports with children involved and a name of the accused, they will investigate.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
You realize its a class 3 federal felony to not report child sex crimes right? I have 2 boys if someone found out they were being abused by someone id hope theyd report it. I have a contract that tge original owner signs agreeing to data recovery even if they don't want it at the moment, which is why I hold it for 90 days in case they change their mind. Any kiddy pr0n **** I store to flash drives and turn it all over to the cops. Since Im friends with about 45% of the local sheriff's office including the sheriff himself they know I have no involvment other than reporting it. And everything I turn over isn't stuff I accidentally downloaded its all stuff tied back to the original owner thru their information and signature on the paperwork. It also covers my ass if the devices comes up stolen, basically same paperwork a pawnshop would have you fill out to pawn something. I had all my paperwork written up with the local DA and my attorneys to make sure I'm in the clear for anything I find and report. I got a laptop a couple years ago that actually had enough information still buried in the drive to help the cops solve a cold case murder of some eldery woman from the early 90s. Someone at some point who owned the laptop had saved emails and pictures and other documents on there, erased them but were still in a hidden partition that had never been touched by other data

I like to break stuff! :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] graydiggy:
I report any crimes involving children. I just do it anon style. I don't have all that extra stuff though. Like contracts and a good friendship with the police force. I haven't even bought and flipped any phones for almost a year now. Too many of them are stolen these days. Not Worth the hassle anymore.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
Yeah stolen device's are why I originally had paperwork drawn up, but after talking to some of my cop buddies they suggested I add data recovery to my paperwork cuz they'd been able to solve or get leads on a lot of crimes doing data recovery on stolen or confiscated phones and other electronic devices. Id say 90% of what I recover is normal family photos and stuff like that but 10% of it is crime related mostly pot stuff or drug talk/pics but theres the rare occasion something really messed up shows up, like the pics I found a few weeks ago of some dead bodies that were all mutilated. Luckily I have a strong stomach cuz those pics made me nauseous and I've seen quite a few dead people in person over my lifetime.

I like to break stuff! :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] graydiggy:
I will look into doing the contract stuff. Do you happen to have a general outline of your contract that you wouldn't mind sharing so I may use it. I do plan on getting back into phone repair and reselling When I can afford it. I would like a good solid contract to cover my a$$. There is a ton of phones out there that have busted screens or messed up software begging to get fixed and sold. Plus the money isn't too bad either. Also, what program do you use for data recovery on the phones? I too have seen some pretty crazy stuff in my life as well. More than I want to see...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
We used a basic pawn paperwork pack and edited it to fit my situation adding in a sub section about data recovery. I use a few different programs but the main one is one I got thru my full time job which is expensive I think around 800-1000$ its used for data recovery by most large corporations and the government in the event of a drive dying or other data loss. It will actually pull data from a DBR drive after you pull the disk out and put it in a drive reader which looks like a record player/caseless hard drive thing it had an arm that spins over the disk to read whats left on the broken pieces, I don't have that part just the software. We do have the drive reader at the office where they use it to try and recover peoples data when we receive their damaged electonics they filed a claim on. I'll get the name of it and some of the better of the cheaper ones I've used

I like to break stuff! :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bluedevils2003:
Dude thats awesome , helping protecting kids is always a + in my book

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy s3
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
I have 2 of my own. If anyone ever did anything to one of them I'd more than likely snap and use the local sex offender registry as a hit list. Some of the **** people think up to do to kids makes me want to go homicidal

I like to break stuff! :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] graydiggy:
I have one as well. I would kill anyone that even thinks about harming my son. There are some pretty twisted people out there. When I see the horrible things they do to children, it takes me to a very dark place.
[Nexus 10 General] c0minatcha:
Hi Guys,

I had a Nexus 10 for like a week but unfortunately it was faulty. Returned it and thought I'd wait a month for "New Stock" then re-purchase !

For the week I had it ... I loved it.....and now cant get any Nexus 10s from the Play Store - I'm just sat here waiting :D

I came across this article regarding a revised Nexus 10 device !! anyone heard anything else ?

Here's the article:

http://www.brightsideofnews.com/new...let-at-mwc-2013-quad-core2c-gpgpu-inside.aspx

Thought I'd throw it out there!

If the article is true - I'm gona be waiting for the revised version!

Peace Out
[Nexus 10 General] redthunda69:
I'm not gonna hold my breath for any new Nexus device at MWC. I think the next thing we'll see is the successor to the Nexus 7 at Google I/O in May.
[Nexus 10 General] mrRobinson:
I don't know... I don't read many people complaining about the power of the tegra3 in the Nexus 7, while the article is correct in that pushing this resolution the Nexus 10 is a bit underwhelming on the performance side. I'd see them wanting a top performer 10" to one up the ipad4. They've beat the ipad4 in dpi (not color) if they can boost perf and hopefully adjust color values they'd do quite well.

I just see making these adjustments to a Nexus 10 (2) being more needed than any adjustments on the Nexus 7.
[Nexus 10 General] borchgrevink:
If true, would this solve the issue with missing Miracast?
[Nexus 10 General] Jayrod1980:
I believe all the issues have to do with how little rigidity there is in the chassis. Gg2 is just too thin to stay flat with such a long narrow panel. Its the uneven backlight that makes light bleed and colors so bad. If the device were stiffer and/or had thicker glass I'm sure that the screen would be much better. Almost all the screen issues I believe stem from this.

Sent from my 5th and final Nexus 4

---------- Post added at 04:53 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:50 PM ----------

To expand on that... The screen is not flat really. I think in their desire to make it light and thin that they didn't anticipate the screen sag. I had my screen replaced by Samsung and the screen was either pressed in too hard or was warped from the start because it had worse bleed than the original. If I were to grip the tablet from the edges and push back as if to snap the device in half, all bleed went away.

Sent from my 5th and final Nexus 4
[Nexus 10 General] Ed 115:
I hope Google won't crap on early adopters like that and just work on optimizing software with the current hardware..... I have no more money to upgrade!
[Nexus 10 General] BarryH_GEG:
With the combination of "brightsideofthenews.com" and "according to the people we spoke with" as attribution for the source in the article I'd say this is probably below the scale of a rumor.
[Nexus 10 General] wildpig1234:
As far as user experience goes for me so far, the tablet itself hasn't really slow me down anytime due to speed yet. Playing 1080p has been smooth... I like the 1600p display as that match the native resolution of my desktop monitor so that works really well for remote desktop..

I understand how Google want to take the tech leadership from apple. If that can somehow lead developers to start developing better apps than iOS then that would be so great. So tired of playing seomd fiddle to so many of these apps that have much better iOS over.

As far as the hardware goes, I would glad to pay a little extra if they can include 64 or 128 GB storage. Better yet, a micro sdxc slot would be nice.... Also a 4g over would be good. And if they can ever change the software to allow ad hoc network... I think these are more important than 8 core CPU GPU..
[Nexus 10 General] dalingrin:
It is not nearly as flexible as you make it sound. If this were truly the problem with the display then flexing the device would cause backlight shifts and screen distortions. This, however, is not the case in my experience.
[Nexus 10 General] Patrik G:
same here after some tweaking

its reference quality in playback and smoothness

also the screen is out of this world

i say it already after 1 month of use.

i have never seen a display producing "more" details and sharpness to 1080p blu ray material.

its amost that the N10 knows what color the pixel that is scaled up should have.

Blu Ray source material looks more like 4K on this screen.

why the hell would i change this for a rev2 ?

because NFSMW isnt running at 60fps?..nah..that **** should be played on a PC with a Wheel :)

also remember

performance improvements can come with updates in the near future.

you could allways tweak settings for specific games to run even better.

Nvidia has done it for a long time.

Google can also do it when they see that only 99% of the games runs at 60fps ;)

my next Tablet upgrade will be when they runs in 120hz at 120FPS

not before.
[Nexus 10 General] c0minatcha:
Just reading through the above, the small use I had of the Nexus 10 was a great experience!

Ive been checking the stock in the UK and it hasn't been replenished...then I read that article....and thought as usual now should I wait (Not that I have any choice right now!)

Maybe instead of concentrating on the N10 v2 - they should maybe concentrate on getting the current version back in stock and their accessories in order for all their products !!

And to re-itterate the screen was super dope !!
[Nexus 10 General] borchgrevink:
Could the low stock indicate that they are working on a rev 2?
[Nexus 10 General] schnip:
Performance wise this tablet is a milestone in the android world.... Dafuq i just read?!
[Nexus 10 General] styckx:
Here is another place running the story. Sounds like copy/paste `journalism' to me.

http://nvonews.com/2013/01/21/new-g...imus-g2-ascend-w2expected-for-mwc-2013-specs/

More Powerful Google Nexus 10: It has been quite recently that we received the large 10-inch Nexus tablet from Google. The device, made by Samsung, has an amazing 2560 x 1600 display. This high resolution is highly praised as it beats both iPad 3 and iPad 4. But, the device lacks a powerful processor. Samsung used its Exynos 5 chipset inside a dual core Cortex-A15 CPU and a Mali T604-Class graphical processor.

Many customers find the device underpowered, because of its dual core CPU and less competent graphical processor. As per rumors, Google is likely to produce a quad core version for the device. Along with the CPU upgrade, the tablet will have an 8-core T628 graphical processor. The projected tablet will have a fresh Android version and the same 2GB RAM.
[Nexus 10 General] daLareid:
I don't think so, but it would be great, this would lower their costs about RMA's since so many people returned their tablets.
[Nexus 10 General] fixyourtech:
Garbage :eek:

I doubt they will update it until a year after the first one came out, other then to add a simcard.
[Nexus 10 General] lesonal:
Incremental upgrade.....cool
[Nexus 10 General] styckx:
I'm sure Google is touting around a bunch of tablet prototypes and these guys might have even seen one but I doubt it will be a Revision 2 of the same product. It will probably be the followup model and we'll see it in about a year from now which is fine and expected. The only thing that makes this somewhat plausible is that Google is the worst company in the world at keeping secrets. Or they are the most genius speculation generating company in existence.

I can't see moving off the N10 (personally) in a year.. The mobile markets technology advancement is moving at a disgusting rate though. I love bleeding edge technology and such but they need to slow it down a notch.
[Nexus 10 General] BarryH_GEG:
You guys certainly are an emotional lot. ;)

First, Exynos 5 Dual is more than capable of running a 10" tablet. It's a more modern architecture than Exynos 4 Quad with more memory bandwidth. It's on par with S4 Pro which is the other new-gen SoC being heavily used right now.

Samsung's Exynos 5 Dual integrates two ARM Cortex A15 cores running at up to 1.7GHz with a shared 1MB L2 cache. The A15 is a 3-issue, Out of Order ARMv7 architecture with advanced SIMDv2 support. The memory interface side of the A15 should be much improved compared to the A9 [Exynos 4]. The wider front end, beefed up internal data structures and higher clock speed will all contribute to a significant performance improvement over Cortex A9 based designs. It's even likely that we'll see A15 give Krait a run for its money, although Qualcomm is expected to introduce another revision of the Krait architecture sometime next year to improve IPC and overall performance. The A15 is also found in TI's OMAP 5. It will likely be used in NVIDIA's forthcoming Wayne SoC, as well as the Apple SoC driving the next iPad in 2013.​

Mali 604 is a huge leap above anything Samsung's created before. And if there's a quad-core version of Exynos 5 it'll use the exact same Mali GPU just as the dual and quad-core versions of S4 Pro share the same GPU.

Samsung's fondness of ARM designed GPU cores continues with the Exynos 5 Dual. The ARM Mali-T604 makes its debut in the Exynos 5 Dual in quad-core form. Mali-T604 is ARM's first unified shader architecture GPU, which should help it deliver more balanced performance regardless of workload (the current Mali-400 falls short in the latest polygon heavy workloads thanks to its unbalanced pixel/vertex shader count). Each core has been improved (there are now two ALU pipes per core vs. one in the Mali-400) and core clocks should be much higher thanks to Samsung's 32nm LP process. Add in gobs of memory bandwidth and you've got a recipe for a pretty powerful GPU. Depending on clock speeds I would expect peak performance north of the PowerVR SGX 543MP2 [iPad 3], although I'm not sure if we'll see performance greater than the 543MP4 [iPad 4].​

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6148/samsung-announces-a15malit604-based-exynos-5-dual

So there's no rush to get a Rev2 of N10 out as the performance increase from Exynos Dual to Quad wouldn't be that dramatic and the GPU would be exactly the same. The h/w for the N10 is mostly provided by Samsung and the components are all latest generation. The display has an enormous amount of pixels but if your read the article the h/w is more than capable of supporting it. So any issues with performance will hopefully be addressed with s/w updates vs. the need for an emergency h/w update.
[Nexus 10 General] deaffob:
Do people still think that these random reboots are the hardware problem of N10? It is 4.2 problem. If you have 4.2 in Nexus 4 and Nexus 7, they all get these random reboots. I just think that people just return/replace their devices without doing any reading.

Version 2? It looks like it'd have better chipset but I don't know where does it stop. It's like Samsung developing Octa chipset. I just think that we need any more power than Snapdragon S4 Dual. That already had plenty of power and now we are holding Exynos 5 Dual A15 based. It's like with your desktop computer, you could have i7 6-core 12-thread 37XXk CPU. You bought it for $600 but you are probably never going to use all its power for years to come.